why laos now? i skipped one. i have been lucky to work with jackie, who is not only an expert on laos, but an expert in driving through fields and streams in southern laos -- not streams, roaring rivers to get to the villages where we were. i am going ahead of myself. i want to bring you back to one of the first press conferences that president kennedy gave after he took office on march 23 of 1961. [begin video clip] >> the president's press conference, march 23, 1961. >> i want to make a brief statement about laos. it is important for all americans to understand this difficult and potentially dangerous problem. my conversation with general eisenhower before the inauguration on january 19, we spent more time on this hard matter than any other thing. since then, it is before the administration as the most immediate of the problems that we found upon taking office. >> that was probably -- i was not around in 1961, but maybe the last of the public heard about laos for the most part. he went on to state "i want to ma

why laos now? i skipped one. i have been lucky too to work with jacque, who is not only an expert on laos but an expert driving through fields and streams throughout southern laos. not streaming, roaring rivers to get to the rural villages where we were. i am going ahead of myself here. i want to bring you back to one of the first press conferences that president kennedy gave after he took office. this was march 23rd, 1961. let me see if i can play this little clip and see if it works. >> the president's press conference from the new statement department auditorium, march 23rd, 1961. >> i want to make a brief statement about laos. it is, i think, important for all americans to understand this difficult and potentially dangerous problem. in my last conversation with general eisenhower, the day before the inauguration on january 19th, we spent more time on this matter than any other thing. since then, it has been before the administration as the most immediate of the problems that we found upon taking office. >> th

loverms of land in laos, -- roughly 1% of what the experts believed to be the contaminated area in laos has been clear to point. amy: in 2013, democracy now! manixia thor who leads an all-women bomb cleararance tm in laos. she explained what her work entails. >> every day as an all-female de-mining team, we try to find bomblets a land where people live and farm and work. emphasizing the importance of the job and the importance of clearance because it is people's lives. if they don't work the land, they don't need. amy: this is incredibly dangerous. >> very dangerous. i am afraid. other people are afraid. this work is necessary because there are so many bomblets and so it is necessary work. messagesked herer what she has for americans. opppportunity too tell the american people about what is going g on in my country and the problem. the war may have ended 40 years ago, but for the people of laos, it hasn't. it is still very live for many of us in laos. the hope was that as people hear and understand the problems, the role be more support, momore awareness, and we will get additional supp

it is coming to laos and nepal. [applause] president obama: we believe that the daughters of laos have just as much talent and potential as your sons. and none of our countries -- [applause] president obama: none of our countries, anywhere in the world , can truly succeed unless our girls and our women have every opportunity to succeed, the same opportunities as boys and men do. [applause] we want to bea: your partner with the young people of laos, as you strengthen your communities and create businesses and use facebook to raise awareness for the rights and dignity of all people. that is why, as part of our young southeast asian leaders initiative, we are helping men and women across laos develop the skills you need to succeed. two of our top companies, microsoft and general electric, are helping to increase training in engineering and technology. young people in laos shouldn't have to move someplace else in order to prosper. you should be able to work and build a better life right here in laos. we want to be a par

lao to clear the land. they just started clearing this land two days ago and they've already found 42 bombies. >> reporter: "bombies" are the baseball size explosives packed by the hundreds into larger cluster bombs designed to open in mid air, raining the smaller anti-personnel bombs filled with ball bearings and other shrapnel over wide swaths of land. (explosion) >> so about 270 million were originally dropped of the cluster munitions and an estimate of 80 million still remain on the land. obviously we still have a lot more to go. but for the villagers here it's so important that their land gets cleared. >> reporter: u.x.o. lao is one of several ordnance removal operations that receive u.s. funding to find and safely remove u.x.o.'s throughout the country. (explosion) >> i think one of the challengeo to clearing the ho chi minh trail has just been again awareness and attention. there has been clearance over the last 15 years. but we just need more resourcesm >> reporter: daniel clune, the u.s. ambassador

that's something that we've done here in laos with lao textiles. we have done as well.hink one of the importanthe distinctions is i am a weaver.ea i have devoted my entire life since the age of 17 to weaving 1 and designing. >> reporter: when she and heran husband came here nearly 30 years ago as u.n. developmentye advisors, full diplomatic relations between the u.s. and laos had yet to be restored. americans were still viewed somewhat suspiciously by the communist lao government-- the u.s. having been on the losing side of the laos civil war and communist takeover. >> so it was really this rebuilding of lao americano relations that we have felt that. and my husband and i who, weba built the business together. he is much more diplomatic thanm i am. and i think it's been very helpful, navigating the complexities. >> reporter: they eventually set up a textile business of their own with a core staff of weavers from the north, many of them the wives and mothers of the pathet lao communist forces who had been living and working out of caves during the nearly ten years of u.s

today, the eyes of the world are on laos. and i know that maybe a little unusual because laos is a small nation next to larger neighbors. as a result, too often, the richness of your culture has not been fully appreciated. that is why as part of my visit, i'm grateful for my opportunity to know laos better. and share your story with the world. here, i know you appreciate the beauty of the land, the mountains and sunsets, the achievements of ancient civilizations, that echo in the ruins. palm leaf manuscripts preserved at your temples. tomorrow, i will experience some of this heritage myself when i visit a province. isnly regret, i know this called the land of one million elephants, but secret service will not let me ride an elephant. but maybe i will come back when i am no longer president. in your daily lives, we see the strength that draws so many of faith, ayour buddhist faith that tells you that you have a moral duty to each other, to live in kindness and honest the, and that we can help and suffering if we embrace the ri

president to visit laos.nced $90 million in aid to erase the tragedies of the war and he made headlines for cancelling a scheduled meeting with the president of philippines who says he now regrets the obscenity-laced comments came across as attack to the u.s. president. we have cnn's michelle kosinski live from laos this morning. good morning, michelle. >> reporter: john, you know, you don't see this happen very often. especially in the cases, this is when every leader is on their best behavior to try to, you know, find common ground with whoever they are meeting with. the president of the philippines has made controversial statements before, but what he said yesterday was surprising to the white house. what if president obama brings up the vigilante killings of the thousands of people involved in drug cases in philippines over the last few months. he said who is president obama to bring it up in this forum and said he would curse him if he brought it up. those comments put the white house over the edge. they

. >>> laos will welcome u.s.resident barack obama next week when he attends the asean and east asia summits but the two countries share a difficult history. the southeast asian nation became entangled in the vietnam war and millions of unexploded u.s. bombs still litter the country. nearly 50,000 people have been killed or injured by them since the war began, and clearing them will take decades. nhk world's patchaya thanaudom reports. >> reporter: the lush, green landscape of laos can appear peaceful, but the scars of war like these bomb craters are never far away. in this province, northeastern laos, the remnants of war are part of daily life refashioned as construction materials or garden planter. attempting to cut north vietnamese supply lines and disperse communist rebels, the u.s. dropped more than 2 million tons of explosives on laos during the vietnam war. it's believed up to 30% of bombs failed to detonate. known as unexploded ordinance, or uxo, they're scattered over one-third of the country's land. disp

and he say would vietnam be, how to say, willing to pay laos a certain amount of money for laos not to build a dam? simple. right? another thing that i would say, well, you can come in and build a nuclear power plant for them. and then they would have this nuclear power plant, and then maybe they will have another kind of a protest, green protest, do not build a green power plant, follow japan, follow germany, forget the nuclear power plant, the same game again, right? now, but i have looked at this -- looked at the hide roar power in sibari. it would go into operation into 2019. and you know what? laos would use only 5% of that 1200 megawatt hydropower plant. 95% would be sold to thailand. thailand is the biggest investor, right? so -- but however, i would say that i would like to say i love this forum, your american fellow. laos has an excellent degree on the green energy. and i think it's -- even they, how to say, advocate use or purchase or sale of energy when should be green. that is very good, i think it's very progressive advance in the region. by saying that, i think that thail

we are in laos traveling with the historic visit to laos? >> this is a historic moment for laos and the united states. president obama the first president to come here. the united states bombed this nation try to go cut off enmy supply lines. laos deal ws that here. there are millions of unexplodded bombs. some 20,000 people have been killed or injured. $90 million to help deal with the crisis. that's about as much money has been spent here since the war ended. the president attending southeast asian nations. laos hosting that event. it's all part of the effort to rebalance u.s. foreign policy towards this part of the world away from the middle east and europe. he is here for a couple of days after a very dramatic visit to china where he putin, perhaps the last time those two leaders will meet face to face. >>> all right. full speed ahead. hillary clinton and donald trump, they are now at a final all out sprint with both candidates fighting it out across battleground states. >>> and two new polls show how clinton beating trump 48% to 42%. th

the government of laos said it would step up efforts to help recover the remains of us troops. now back to you." decision 2016 nowdonald trump has an edge over hillary clinton-- that according to a new c-n-n o-r-c poll. it shows the republican presidential candidate leading over his democratic opponent by two points among likely voters.he clinton's 43-percent.according to the poll-- most voters say they still expect to see clinton prevail in november. but it's a different story on a new n-b-c survey monkey poll. that poll shows clinton leading by six percentage points over trump.clinton has 48 percent while trump has 42 percent.the nbc poll was conducted among registered voters. gun sales are on track to break another record. background checks have increased six percent from august 2015.more than one million checks were done last month. the month of august since the f-b-i started conducting background checks in 1998.in fact, every monthly tally this year has hit an all-time high. the search is on for three men caught on camera stealing more than 60 guns from a southeastern minn

and next, president obama will try to repair a rift with laos. a country where people are still dying from american bombs dropped during the vietnam war. >> president obama will meet with victims of those old bombs today. he said the ud moral obligation to help laso rid itself of dangerous ves gentlemans of the past. he committed $90 million over three years to help get it done. adrianna diaz has more. >> reporter: try telling brahn yong, the war ended 43 years ago. in july, the 8-year-old picked what he thought was a ball. instead it exploded. child. >> reporter: she made it her life's motion to get rid of the millions of exploded bombs littering laso. >> this is a problem. get the bomb out of the ground. there wouldn't be death and injury in the future. >> reporter: during the vietnam war, the u.s. dropped $27000 bombs on neighboring laos in part to cut off north vietnamese supply routes. craters from the blasts still scarred the laos, the most heavily bombed country in the world. per capita. on average, bombs were dropped here every eight minu

dropd more tons on laos. it made it the most heavily bombed country in history. >> and it comes during a rare moment of messiness after a cursing raised eyebrows and ultimately lead to the cancellation of a meeting between both world leaders. it it also included a diplomatic snub. we are in laos traveling with the president. what can you tell us about this historic visit to laos? >> this is a historic moment for laos and the united states. president obama the first president to come here. the united states bombed this nation try to go cut off enmy supply lines. laos deal ws that here. there are millions of unexplodded bombs. some 20,000 people have been killed or injured. today president obama announced $90 million to help deal with the crisis. that's about as much money has been spent here since the war ended. the president attending southeast asian nations. laos hosting that event. it's all part of the effort to rebalance u.s. foreign policy towards this part of the world away from the middle east and europ

he was shot down over laos, he was forgotten. he is not the only one to the defense department lived more than 300 approved a missing in action in laos, most likely died in plane crashes, as many as 41 maven held pow there is at the us never officially acknowledged taking part in the war in laos, free the pow held in peel vietnam, didn't apply to those across the border and a lot of people care that were with them, after that. in a very real way, he still carries it with him. he still wears his dad pow man he barely knew, but who is inspired him nonetheless. years later, he joined the navy and like his dad became a pilot pitted tribute to the man forgotten by so many, but unforgettable to those who left behind. unimaginable pain that continues indefinitely brought on by war here in vietnam so long here in the mountain town, even in tough on the letter who they are, and what they care about so much. it brings it front and center. certainly our hearts and minds today. it is just two weeks ago, huge gathering, it is that 29 time the

but he did not apologize. >> margaret brennan in laos tonight. thank you. almost sixty million americans are affected by mental illness. together we can help them with three simple words. my name is chris noth september is childhood cancer awareness month. what better time to donate to st. jude children's research hospital? where families never receive a bill . cbs cares. >>> we have our own victims of war here in america. there were headlines recently when a 76-year-old veteran shot himself to death outside a va hospital in north port new york. suicides by vets happen on average, 20 times a day. tonight, jim axelrod has a remarkable story about an organization that is helping to after trying to drink himself past the demons that darkened his mind and after a second member of his old platoon committed suicide, frank lesnefsky got help. in his therapist's office he can talk about his post-traumatic stress instead of being haunted by it. >> you know the tension across my chest. >> i was immobilized. like being frozen. just watching time pass. it's

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and next, president obama will try to repair a rift with laos. a country where people are still dying from american bombs dropped during the vietnam war. >> president obama will meet with victims of those old bombs today. he said the united states has a moral obligation to help laos rid itself of dangerous vestiges of the past. he committed $90 million over three years to help get it done. adrianna diaz has more. >> reporter: try telling brahn yong, the war ended 43 years ago. in july, the 8-year-old picked what he thought was a ball. instead it exploded. >> these bombs are waiting on the land to be found by some life's mission to get rid of the millions of unexploded bombs to gross. -- millions of unexploded bombs littering laos. >> this is a problem. get the bomb out of the ground. there wouldn't be death and injury in the future. >> war, the u.s. dropped $27000 bombs on neighboring laos in part to cut off north vietnamese supply routes. craters from the blasts still scarred the landscape. laos, the most heavily bombed country in the world. per

alison. >> michelle kosinski live from laos. thank you. >>> speaking of laos. what is coming up on "new day." >> oh, j.b. good morning, you and alison kosik. post labor day. new phase. heading into fall. kids heading into school. berman's teams fade or exposed in some bad way. we have a campaign reset for you. a new poll taking you inside what is a very tight race. why? we're going to show you and get you caught up on all the factors that matter according to the poll. we will tell you what is just pure bunk. plus, jeff zeleny met with vice president joe biden and tim kaine on the campaign trail. hear what the current vp said to get hillary clinton to get the trust of voters. see you soon. and i don't mean you, john. >> thanks, so much, chris. looking forward to not seeing you soon. >>> what would it mean -- i try to move on here. guys still with the jokes. what would it mean if you could update your car software just like your iphone? >> it would change my life. >> me, too. we have an early start on your money next. (announcer vo) who says your desk phone alway

. >> margaret brennan in laos tonight. thank you. >> reporter: the cbs overnight >>> we have our own victims of war here in america. there were headlines recently when a 76-year-old veteran shot himself to death outa va hospital in north port new york. suicides by vets happen on average, 20 times a day. tonight, jim axelrod has a remarkable story about an organization that is helping to rescue, vets in distress. after trying to drink himself past the demens that darkened his mind and after a second member of his old platoon committed suicide, frank lesnefsky got help. in his therapist's office he can talk about his post-traumatic stress instead of being haunted by it. >> you know the tension across my chest. >> i was immobilized. like being frozen. just watching time pass. it's crazy. >> and contemplated taking his own life. >> i had a great person tell me once that -- you know, don't -- so, they're killing us, they're killing us over there and they're still killing us here. the guy told me don't let it happen. don't give

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our meeting here in laos was our eighth meeting.is visit marks my ninth to the asean region, more than any u.s. president. together, the united states and asean forged a strategic partnership guided by key principles, including that asean will remain central to peace, prosperity and progress in the asia south pacific. the united states has worked to make that organization the region's leading forrum for dealing with political and security challenges, including maritime security and guided by the shared vision that we put forward in california. open, dynamic and competitive economies, mutual security and peaceful resolution of disputes and respect for human rights. in short a nation where all nations play by the same rules. that's a vision we advanced here. we're stepping up our efforts to increase trade and investment. u.s. asean connect we're doing more to connect our businesses and investors so that it is easier to start new ventures together. more to connect our entrepreneurs, so we're encouraging innovation. more to connect clea

obama moved on to his last stop in asia, laos. here he becomes the first u.s. president to visit since they were bombed so heavily during the vietnam war. unclear how he will try to end the present nightmare he faces every day in syria and whether he'll ever again. >>> now an update on a story that shocked the country this summer. it's been three months singsz that deadly accident in florida where a toddler was killed by an al gator. the toddler's parents have broken their silence to honor their son on what would have been his birthday. >> reporter: lane graves would have been 3 years old on saturday. >> happy birthday, lany, you are i hearts today and every second of every other day. >> reporter: in his hometown, elk horn, nebraska, people gathered to celebrate his life, eating cookies and forming a heart for his parents and big sister ella. >> when we were apart, you would tell us i missed you as we came in the door, you would always come running to give us a hug and kiss. kisses. >> reporter: lane was building a sand castle when a 7-foot alligator grabbed hi

adrianna diaz, cbs news, laos. let's feed him to the sharks! squuuuack, let's feed him to the sharks! yay! and take all of his gold! and take all of his gold! ya! and hide it from the crew! ya...? squuuuack, they're all morons anyway! i never said that. they all smell bad too. no! you all smell wonderful! i smell bad! if you're a parrot, you repeat things. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, it's what you do. >>>well cup back. the controversial hillary clinton's private e-mail server while she was secretary of state continues to dog her on the campaign trail. a top congressional republican is calling for a federal investigation into thousand of e-mails that were deleted by a denver tech firm hosting her server. issued a for mall order to preserve such records. the person who performed the purge could face federal charges of obstruction of justice. clinton dismissed it all as politically motivated. >> because, you know, the fbi resolved all of this. their report answered all the questions. the findings

has a moral victims of america's secret war in laos. it was one of the largest covert cia operations in history and it left laos, the most heavily bombed country in the world. the prosthetic limbs dangling above president obama were a stark reminder of the wound still caused by the american bombing decade ago. ny unintended.mendous costs.is >> during the war in neighboring vietnam, u.s. war planes dropped 270 million cluster bombs on laos to cut off military supply there have been 20,000 casualties since the war ended. phong manithong, maimed and blinded at 16. a friend gave him what looked look a toy ball. it was a bomb that suddenly exploded in his hand. >> i feel lots of pain on my body. and i feel like -- i, i was in fire. >> reporter: for a year after the devastating accident. phong was afraid to leave home. surprisingly he is not angry at the country that dropped the bomb. >> i forgive you i forgive everyone because angry doesn't get you any good thing. >> reporter: across laos hard to miss the imprints from the ombs. [ explosion

obama's trip to laos is the first by a laos paid a terrible price during the vietnam war as american bombs rained down in a secret campaign. as adrianna diaz learned the wounds are still fresh. >> reporter: try telling brong yang the war ended 43 years ago. in july, the eight year old picked up what he thought was a ball. instead, it exploded. >> these bombs are just waiting out there on the land to be >> reporter: channapha chamvongsa has made it her life's mission to get rid of the millions of unexploded bombs still littering laos. >> this is a volume ofable problem. if we could get them out of the ground there wouldn't be death and injury in the future. >> reporter: during the vietnam war the u.s. dropped 270 million bombs on neighboring laos in part to cut off north vietnamese supply routes. craters from the blasts still scar the laos is the most heavily bombed country in the world per capita. on average, bombs were dropped here every eight minutes for nine years. chamvongsa has lobbied the u.s. congress and raised millions to clear the land. one acre can take more than two month

i don't know if you've gone and talked to some people in laos. they seem pretty happy about my visit. everywhere we've gone, we've had a great reception. just as earlier when we went to vietnam. we got a great reception. you'll recall millions of people lining the streets. so if this theory about my reception and my rebalance policy is based on my going down short stairs in china, yes, i think that is overblown. i think any reasonable person, certainly any person in the region would be puzzled as to how this became somehow indicative of the work that we've done here. you know, if you look at the remarks of leaders, if you look at the remarks of ordinary people, if you look at the concrete work that we've gotten done on everything from economic programs to development programs to legacy of war issues to promoting civil society in young people, the concern that i've heard is not that what we've done hasn't been important and ses. . the concern i've heard is will it continue and almost uniformly the question i get from other leaders is we hope that

nicole: he was scheduled to meet in laos but the meeting was canceled. lauren: president obama and russian president putin held an important meeting aimed at ending the bloodshed in syria. look at that. president obama said the meeting was candid and blunt but there are still obstacles in the way of u.s. and russian agreement, the two leaders have told top diplomats to schedule meeting this beak and president obama brought concerns about cybersecurity as well as situation in ukraine. nicole: u.s. intelligence d oassopio t un ss tblist in election in the united states political institutions. u.s. hopes to understand the intent of russian campaign which uses cyber tools to hack systems using the political process and that in turn helps russia to spread disinformation. the official cautions the intelligence community not saying that it has definitive proof of such tampering. lauren: activists has died. first lady of the conservative movement died in her st. louis home yesterday, opposition to equal rights movement and abortion rights. she also founded the c

increase its work. >> obama is in laos for this summit. it is perhaps one of the last trips for him to the region. his private -- pivot to asia is to show support against china for their growing power. >> the united states will continue to fly and sai and operate werel international law allows. we will stand with our allies and partners in upholding efforts. lawful commerce that is not impeded and peaceful resolution of disputes, that is the security that we seek. >> the regional diplomacy is a delicate balancing act. philippine president rodrigo duterte called obama a son of a whore. >> we have long ceased to be a colony. i do not have any master except the filipino people. nobody, but nobody. you must be respectful and do not just throw away questions and statements. >> obama canceled the planned meeting with the philippine president as his aides scrambled to limit the damage. >> he expresses deep regret, deep regard and an affinity for president obama and their partnership tween the two nations. he also regrets that it came across as a

obama's trip to laos, the first by a sitting u.s. president. laos paid a terrible price during the vietnam war as american bombs rained down in a secret campaign. as the adriana diaz learned, the rules are still fresh. >> reporter: try telling her the war ended 43 years ago. in july the 8-year-old picked up what he thought was a ball. instead it exploded. >> these bombs are just waiting out there on the land to be found by some child. >> reporter: she has made it her life's mission to get rid of the millions of unexploded bombs littering laos. >> this is a solvable problem. we can get the bombs out of the ground. there wouldn't be death and injury in the future. >> reporter: during the vietnam war, the u.s. dropped 270 million bombs on neighboring laos in part to cut off north vietnamese supply routes. craters from the blasts still scar the landscape. laos is the most heavily bombed country in the world per capita. on average, bombs were dropped here every eight minutes for nine years. chamvaongsa, lobbied u.s. congress and raised millions to c

he is on an overseas trip to laos.o respond to the latest round of comments and accusations and questions and answers in the latest u.s. presidential race. stick around. >>> all right. we are awaiting on president obama. he will hold a news conference any minute. he is traveling overseas. he is finishing up the systemumn laos. we expect he will be asked about the u.s. presidential race. there was a national security forum here last night in new york. a lot was said by both candidates. we expect the president will be asked about that. we will bring you the news conference when it happens. >>> the other headlines about hillary clinton's e-mail and controversy surrounding that. the state department released the exchange that it was colin powell she use a non state server. it was an e-mail from james comey saying the decision was not a close call to not prosecute her. let's discuss this issue here in new york on the set by cnn political reporter eugene scott. eugene, great to have you here with us. i want to do a dramatic

relationship with laos. nine years, there was a secret war in which the united states was dropping bombs on this country. and i just this morning came from an organization that is taking explosives that did not detonate, and trying to remove them from the countryside. so if you are an old person that maybe your image of the united states. if you're a young person, now you think we have the opportunity to work with the united states in a different way, and that creates new opportunities and new hope and new relationships. so i think the challenge is for young people is to find the skills and the resources to put your ideas into action. because it's not enough just to dream about i want to educate everybody in my country, or i want to build a great do business. you actually have to do the work and you have to have plans. it's hard. and so part of what we are trying to do is to provide resources to young people, but also help them learn from each other so that maybe there's a program. we just learned from dissa

president obama will meet with some of those viti vientiane, laos. ((kirsten joyce)) >>> a controversy is growing over the safest way to fight the zika virus. in miami... specialized trucks are being used for the first time to kill mosquitoes that carry the virus. the chemical they are using is environmentally friendly. but critics say it's not strong enough.. and they want to use a neurotoxin called naled instead: (( tanjim hossain ) "when a droplet of the insecticide touches a mosquito it kills the mosquito pretty >> the c-d-c and e-p-a both insist naled is safe. but it has been banned by the european union... and protested in puerto rico.. where officials say it could be dangerous for pregnant women./// ((kirsten joyce)) >>> how close is too close for comfort? the new style of living that has millenials up close and personal... and could we see some wet weather this week? your full forecast still ahead on 8 news now, ((you're watching 8 news now at noon.)) it's warm... our area today and it looks like we will get missed by the remnants of hurrican